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Exhumation of a Murder
The Life & Trial of Major Armstrong
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The case of Major Armstrong, the celebrated Hay Poisoner, the only solicitor ever to hang, is one of those classic, old-fashioned English murders which hail from the heyday of courtroom drama when, with the hangman lurking in the pine-and-panel wings and the black cap an object of horrifyingly alarming currency rather than mere symbolism, the loser in 'the black dock's dreadful pen' lost all. It comes straight out of the pages of George Orwell's essayed nostalgia.
Robin Odell acknowledges his debt to the researches of the late Dr Hubert Trumper a medical practitioner in Hay-on-Wye, and the late Joe Gaute, distinguished crime historian and publisher. Their combined efforts sustained over several years brought many insights to bear on the life and trial of Major Armstrong.
- ISBN-13
- 9781869928926
- Publisher
- Mandrake of Oxford
- Imprint
- Mandrake of Oxford (UK)
- Publication date
- 3 July 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 284
- Dimensions
- 155 x 230 mm
- Illustrations
- b/w photos & illus
- Language
- English
